ence of life, said to me: 'When you come into the room, I think I will study how to make humanity beautiful to you.'"

Cotton for Garments.

The best fabric for purposes of health is composed of flax and wool. Silk is a third-rate article for garments. It should be woven with linen or woolen, to supply the demands of physiological laws. Cotton is a neutral, or passive substance on the body; while linen is constantly electrical, and woolen powerfully magnetic. Silk, being a non-conductor of life and vitality, is inclined to exhaust the entire body through the nerve-forces. Linen and wool, woven into one fabric, are best for stockings, undershirts, and garments for the skin.

A Cure for Cold Feet.

If you have cold feet, immerse them morning and evening in cold water, rub with a rough towel, and run about your room till they burn. In one month you will be entirely relieved. This advice is excellent, and the remedy is good, "all other things being equal," but the truth is, that nothing external or internal can cure cold feet if the stomach does not promptly digest its daily food. A cheerful spirit, plenty of simple nourishment, whole shoes and cotton stockings, with appropriate outdoor exercise-these constitute the true medicine for cold feet. Zinc and copper plates, worn in the stockings at night, are very useful when your vitality is depressed.

Red and Black Pepper.

In the treatment of disease, black pepper is a powerful and useful irritant, and there are conditions of the stomach, bowels, and brain, in which pepper tea, or a few grains mixed with sugar, would act very beneficially. But it is not wise to use

pepper every day. The effect is telegraphed to the membranes of the head, throat, and lungs. Pepper cannot be digested. It is foreign to the nature and composition of the blood, and is, therefore, propelled through the stomach and intestines by the coercive influence of the peristaltic motion. No doubt many persons have headache and bowel diseases from the constant use of such an irritant. Use no pepper, either black or red, except as a medicine.

The Wonders of Blood.

The liquid of the blood is colorless, and its red appearance is due to the presence of innumerable little bodies floating in it, which are so small that three millions of them are contained in a drop which may be suspended on the point of a needle. These corpuscles are sacs filled with a compound substance, and it has been ascertained what both the film of the sac and its contents are composed of. Each one of these little bodies has its own life. They are formed, and grow, and die; and it is calculated that nearly twenty millions perish at every pulsation

of the heart.

Milk and Water as Beverages..

Children naturally love artificial beverages-especially the milk of goats and cows; and they love to imbibe the unfermented juice of fruit and berries, because such drinks are as natural for mankind as is pure water from the spring. In grapegrowing countries men drink more wine than any other fluid: yet, beastly intoxication is a sad condition rarely seen in those regions. But of the future we prognosticate thus: Wine, water, and milk will eventually displace and banish alcoholic drinks, and all falsely-artistic table beverages will, in like manner, be swept from the earth; then, when sound health and

common sense shail beacme the rale-and not, as now, the exception the "wine-eup will be forever broken, and righteousness will everywhere prevail." "Fy swifter round, ye wheels of Time, and bring the welcome day.”

Minerals in Vegetation.

M. Eugene Risier maintains that iron plays a principal part in the nutrition of plants; he shows that in the roots, seeds, and white portions, it exists as a protoxide, while in the green portions it is in the form of a peroxide. Expose vegetables to air and light, and the protoxide becomes a peroxide with a rapidity proportioned to the intensity of light. The chlorophyll is green because it combines the two oxides, blue and yellow; and they form a voltaic pair, which decomposes water and the carbonic acid held in solution, the carbon and hydrogen entering into the organism. Nocturnal nutrition is oxidation, diurnal nutrition is deoxidation, and the vegetable tissue is formed like the weaver's, night being the warp, day the woof, with the iron of the chlorophyll to serve as the shuttle.

Man in the Animal State.

“Do you think that man existed first in a germinal capaeity in the first forms of animal life, and then grew up through them, developing more perfectly as he ascended?"

Our investigations bring us to this conclusion: that just as a Building exists, in a germinal state, in the mind of the architect first, then in all the materials accumulated, and lastly, in all the many and various forms which such materials are made to assume in the constructive process, until the idea is accomplished; so, in like manner, the design of a Man, male and female, was the original idea or conception in the spirit of Mother Nature and Father God; that this vast machinery

of means (of minerals, vegetables, and animals,) are the appropriate materials of construction-through all which Man germinally lives, until fully organized as an entity.

Twenty-one Systems.

We have received many letters from students of physiology, who wish to read the old authors with light furnished by the Harmonial Philosophy. Much will depend on their own good sense and untiring industry, while studying. We would call the attention of all who love to study man's constitution—“ fearfully and wonderfully made "—to the beautiful natural divisions of the textures of the corporeal organization. They may be divided into three times seven systems, thus:

(1. Osseous.
2. Medullary.
3. Cartilaginous
4. Fibrous.

5. Fibro-Cartilaginous.
6. Muscular, animal.
(7. Muscular, organic.

1. Mucous.

2. Serous.
3. Synovial.
4. Glandular.
5. Dermoid
6. Epidermoid.
7. Pilous.

A Medicine for every Home.

1. Cellular.

2. Nervous, animal.
3. Nervous, organic.

4. Arterial.

5. Venous.

6. Exhalant.

7. Absorbent, with their glands.

Not only should we cultivate such tempers as serve to render the intercourse of home amiable and affectionate, but we should strive to adorn it with those charms which good sense and refinement so easily impart to it. We say easily, for there are persons who think that a home cannot be beautiful without

a considerable outlay of money. Such people are in error. It

costs little to have a neat flower-garden, and to surround your dwelling with those simple beauties which delight the eye far more than expensive objects. Nature delights in beauty. She loves to brighten the landscape and make it agreeable to the eye. She hangs ivy around the ruin, and over the stump of a withered tree she twines the graceful vine. A thousand arts she practices to animate the sense and please the mind. Follow

her example, and do for yourself what she is always laboring to do for you. Colton.

Wretchedness at Home.

It is not a medical whisper, but a short sermon on Love, and Trust, and Faith, which many require for bodily recuperation. Perhaps you have lost the bright fresh feelings of the soul. If so, you fancy your body diseased. Stand straight up before yourself, then, and let the native power of your soul shine and work into your daily life.

We administer the foregoing as the remedy best suited to heal many infirmities; the balm for many a broken head and heart; the best medical whisper in our pharmacy for hundreds

The Pleasures of Home.

QUESTION. A Correspondent asks: "Suppose all marriagea ble persons should, from this day, marry in accordance with what you term temperamental adaptation,' do you think the ordinary broils and vexations of human homes would cease altogether?"

ANSWER.-If the writer had made a more comprehensive supposition (including all the married throughout the world,) we should reply affirmatively; excepting, of course, all such ordinary "broils" as those which are indispensable to meet the demands of honest hunger.